Sex and Marriage in Machiavelli’s Mandragola: A Close(t) Reading
Article | Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler
This article carries out a close reading of Niccolò Machiavelli’s play Mandragola (The mandrake root) from the perspective of sex and gender studies. In so doing, it takes into consideration what the play says or suggests about sexual desire, sexual practices, and conjugal life. This somewhat...
Ariosto’s Astute Arrogance: The Construction of the Comic City in La Lena
Article | Contributor(s): Daragh O’Connell
This essay interrogates Ludovico Ariosto’s theatrical poetics by charting his developing sense of the theatrical space and his embrace of the contemporary. From an initial appropriation of Roman stage models to a more nuanced appreciation of the comic possibilities afforded through a modernizing...
Érasme, l’Arétin et Boccace dans l’invention du discours comique-burlesque d’Annibal Caro
Article | Contributor(s): Ambra Moroncini
This article considers Annibal Caro’s religious sentiments during the years of his most intense comic and paradoxical production: the pre-Tridentine period from 1536 to 1543, a time of tense expectation in Rome for significant Church reform. Although Caro’s religious beliefs never raised...
The Reception of Fernando de Roja’s Celestina in Italy: A Polyphonic Discourse
Article | Contributor(s): Enrica Maria Ferrara
La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas was published in Spain for the first time in 1499 as a comedy, and as a tragicomedy in 1502. The first Italian translation of the play was published in Rome in 1506 and gave birth to a parallel and complementary textual tradition on which the reception and...
Bodily Passions: Physiognomy and Drama in Giovan Battista Della Porta
Article | Contributor(s): Eugenio Refini
This article explores the intersections of physiognomic knowledge and drama in the works of Neapolitan naturalist and playwright Giovan Battista Della Porta (1535–1616). It first looks at references to theatre—classical drama in particular—in Della Porta’s writings on physiognomy, thus showing...
Self-Portraits of a Truthful Liar: Satire, Truth-Telling, and Courtliness in Ludovico Ariosto’s Satire and Orlando Furioso
Article | Contributor(s): Paola Ugolini
Composed during the most difficult years of Ludovico Ariosto’s relationship with the Este court, the Satire are known for presenting a picture of their author as a simple, quiet-loving man, and also as a man who can speak only the truth. However, the self-portrait offered by the Satire of the...
“E poi in Roma ognuno è Aretino”: Pasquino, Aretino, and the Concealed Self
Article | Contributor(s): Marco Faini
This article explores Pietro Aretino’s pasquinade production as a crucial phase in the construction of his public and literary persona that is characterized by a peculiar effacement of the author’s voice. The article then focuses on issues of anonymity and authorship in the fifteenth and...
“Il ridervi de la goffezza del dire”: Niccolò Franco et la satire napolitaine du pétrarquisme
Article | Contributor(s): Roland Béhar
This essay explores the Neapolitan background of Niccolò Franco and argues that although the main purpose of his Il Petrarchista (Venice, 1539) was certainly a kind of Erasmian and Aretinian satire of the Petrarchist mode which grounded Pietro Bembo’s Prose della volgar lingua (1525), still not...
Burlesque Connotations in the Pictorial Language in Bronzino’s Poetry
Article | Contributor(s): Carla Chiummo
Agnolo di Cosimo, better known as Bronzino, was not only one of the most celebrated painters at the court of Cosimo I in Florence; he was also a dazzling poet, as Vasari reminds us in his Vite. Bronzino was the author of a Petrarchan canzoniere, as well as of burlesque poems. In his sonetti...
Review of La Sepmaine de Du Bartas, ses lecteurs et la science du temps. En hommage à Yvonne Bellenger. Actes du Colloque international d’Orléans (12–13 juin 2014)
Review | Contributor(s): Annick Macaskill
Review of The World beyond Europe in the Romance Epic of Boiardo and Ariosto
Review | Contributor(s): Goran Stanivukovic
Review of L’art de la conciliation
Review | Contributor(s): Philippe Baillargeon
Review of L’écriture des femmes à la Renaissance française II
Review | Contributor(s): Pierre Cameron
Review of Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew
Review | Contributor(s): Margaret Jane Kidnie
Review of Complete Poems: A Bilingual Edition
Review | Contributor(s): Benedetta Lamanna
Review of Faithful Translators: Authorship, Gender, and Religion in Early Modern England
Review | Contributor(s): Karalyn Dokurno
Review of A Trick to Catch the Old One
Review of Translation and the Book Trade in Early Modern Europe / The Culture of Translation in Early Modern England and France, 1500–1660
Review | Contributor(s): Brenda M. Hosington
Review of Ariosto e l’ironia della finzione. La ricezione letteraria e figurativa dell’Orlando furioso in Francia, Germania e Italia
Review | Contributor(s): Johnny L. Bertolio
Review of Sur le sonnet 31 des Regrets. Éléments d’histoire des idées à la Renaissance
Review | Contributor(s): Vanessa Glauser
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